Uffizi

The Statues of David The Story of David and Goliath is a timeless story from I Samuel 17. The Philistine army had come against Israel and was ready for war. The two armies gathered for battle on opposite sides of a valley. A Philistine giant named Goliath that was over 9 feet tall mocked and challenged the Israelites for forty days. Everyone was terrified of him. David, a young shepherd boy heard of this giant and offered to fight him. He went with only a sling and a stone and came back…

Bruce Chao Comparison between Master of the Straus Madonna (The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) of c. 1395–1400 and Virgin and Child with Donor ( the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) of c. 1480 by Antoniazzo Romano ARTH 1381 Mon/Wed/Fri 10-11AM I pledge that in the following paper, I have not represented as my own work the work of another without appropriately acknowledging the source. Bruce Chao The Pictorial style of Italian Art have continually changed throughout the late…

Inferno Essay Famous actor Tom Hanks takes on the important role of Professor Robert Langdon in the film Inferno. This thrilling film captivates you and transports you to the beautiful streets of Venice, Italy where professor Langdon wakes up in a hospital bed and encounters a doctor by the name of Sienna Brooks. After experiencing some heart racing events in the hospital, Dr. Sienna takes professor Langdon to her apartment. Upon running across a small bone cylinder containing a high tech…

The biblical Virgin Mary’s story exists in a spiritual realm of understanding that accepts a dimensionality that cannot be quantified by science, but rather must be accepted by pure faith as it requires one to move outside of conventional reality to believe it. Furthering the acceptance of Mary’s holy nature Dorothy Sacksteder in her thesis “The Cult of Mary: The Role of the Virgin during the Italian Renaissance” states that the Roman Catholic Church exercised their spiritual authority in…

External Forces Against Male Depiction in Art Artwork of the Baroque period in Europe along with the artwork from India and Japan have numerous differences. Regardless of the differences present between the artwork, each focuses on a similar subject, the human male. Weather the art be Caravaggio’s Bacchus, Narsingh’s Maharaja Jaswant Singh II of Marwar, or Yokoyama Taikan’s Kutsugen, each piece focuses on a male figure surrounded by important symbolism of the time period. The paintings may be…

and shrimp. We even got dessert! My family and I shared a slice of tiramisu. I saw the light of the Duomo and it guided us to the center of Florence, where everyone was out looking at the cathedral. In the days proceeding we walked everywhere. The Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio, Pitti Palace, and much more. My favorite place to visit was Giotto’s Campanile. It is the tower the sits next to the cathedral. You can climb all the way to the top and we did that. From the top, you can see all of Florence,…

This art is the most famous painting of his art in the world. This painting was made in 1486 and right now this art is in “Piazzale degli Uffizi” in Italia. The Birth of Venus depicts several gods which are Venus, Zephyr, Horae, Avra or Chloris. Let’s see who are them. First, Venus who is standing demurely on the seashell, she is the god of love. Zephyr who is blowing wind to Venus is the…